Abstract: A method of manufacturing a glazing having a frequency selective surface comprising the steps of: a) depositing a coating on a substrate, said coating being non-transmitting to radio frequency (RF) radiation; b) providing a laser beam and c) removing a portion of the coating by laser ablation to form one or more curves and/or lines having a spacing selected to provide transparency of the coating to RF radiation of a desired wavelength; characterized by d) directing the laser beam and/or moving the substrate such that the relative motion of the intersection of the laser beam and the coating, with respect to the substrate, comprises motion in a first dimension, wherein said motion is simultaneously superimposed with a reciprocating motion in a second dimension; e) translating said intersection in the second dimension; and f) repeating at least step d) out of steps d) to f).

Abstract: A sampling cone of a mass spectrometer is disclosed having a metallic boride coating such as titanium diboride.

Abstract: An optical component includes a substrate and a fluorine-doped thin film formed on the substrate. This fluorine-doped thin film is dense, and thus very low absorbing and insensitive to various vacuum, temperature, and humidity conditions. This dense film has a high refractive index, which remains stable irrespective of environmental conditions. The fluorine-doped thin film can advantageously ensure low scattering, low reflectance, and high transmittance. Moreover, the fluorine-doped thin film is damage resistant to incident radiation density. The fluorine-doped thin film may be a fluorine-doped silicon oxide film having a thickness of approximately 1-10 nm and a fluorine concentration of 0.1% to 5%.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device including a layer containing different evaporation materials, by which a desired layer containing the different evaporation materials is formed easily using a plurality of evaporation materials. A light-emitting device is manufactured in such a manner that a plurality of layers each containing a different evaporation material from each other is stacked over a first substrate; a second substrate which has a first electrode is placed at a position facing the first substrate; the plurality of layers containing evaporation materials is heated to form a layer containing different evaporation materials is formed on the first electrode provided for the second substrate; and a second electrode is formed on the layer containing different evaporation materials.

Abstract: Nanoparticles which are uniform with respect to the distance between particles, their interval and arrangement, which are capable of being fixed on the solid substrate having a large surface greater than about 10×10 cm2 using the Langmuir-Blodgett method. The nanofilm thus produced can be used as the substrate of an analytical sensor, and when the analytical sensitivity property is measured using the substrate of the analytical sensor thus prepared, it is seen that that the sensitivity or the sensor can be improved.

Abstract: An electrically conductive resistive layer is produced by thermally spraying an electrically conductive material onto the surface of a non-conductive substrate. Initially, the material layer arising therefrom has no desired shape. The material layer is then removed in certain areas so that an electrically conductive resistive layer having said desired shape is produced.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thermal barrier coated article including the steps of: a) forming an article having a first surface and a second surface, the article having a plurality of projections extending from the first surface in a direction away from the first surface and away from the second surface, each projection having a first end adjacent the first surface and a second end remote from the first surface, b) depositing a thermal barrier coating on the first surface of the article around each of the projections and on the second ends of the projections, c) removing the thermal barrier coating from the second ends of the projections, and d) forming at least one passage through each projection extending from the second surface of the article through the article and through the respective projection to the second end of the respective projection.

Abstract: A method for applying a vapor deposition coating onto a substrate with a non line of sight or limited line of sight is disclosed. A vapor stream is provided in a chamber that is below atmospheric pressure. The vapor stream is impinged with a working gas that provides a flow that transports the vapor stream. The flow of the working gas is modified with a physical object that directs the flow to achieve a desired coating on the substrate.

Abstract: A crop harvesting header with a cutter bar and a draper assembly has a draper canvas driven by a drive roller with a cylindrical roller body having an outer surface surrounding an axis of rotation of the roller for engaging an inner drive surface of a canvas wrapped therearound. The roller has a plurality of ribs arranged on the outer surface of the roller body extending along a part of the body in an axial direction and angularly spaced around the outer surface. The ribs have a height less than 6 mm and a width less than 6 mm arranged such that the ribs do not engage into any recesses in the drive surface of the canvas.

Abstract: A method of preparing an organic light-emitting device includes forming an organic emission unit on a substrate, and forming a thin film encapsulation layer that contacts an environmental element, and that includes at least one inorganic layer including a low temperature viscosity transition (LVT) inorganic material, wherein the inorganic layer is formed using a process including forming a pre-inorganic layer including the LVT inorganic material by providing the LVT inorganic material onto the organic emission unit on which the environmental element is located, performing a first healing process on the pre-inorganic layer at a temperature greater than a viscosity transition temperature of the LVT inorganic material, and performing a second healing process on the pre-inorganic layer having undergone the first healing process to increase a binding force between the environmental element and the LVT inorganic material, and to increase a binding force among the LVT inorganic material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the qualitative and/or quantitative determination of at least one component of a chemically reducible gas mixture, an exhaust gas catalytic converter utilizing such a device, a vehicle including such a catalytic converter, a process for preparing such a device, a process for monitoring the NOx emissions of a vehicle, and the use of such a device.

Abstract: Some aspects of the invention provide an oxide substrate having a flat surface at the atomic layer level, and suited to forming a thin film of a perovskite manganese oxide. One aspect of the invention provides a single-crystal oxide substrate 10 having a single-crystal supporting substrate 1 of (210)-oriented SrTiO3 and a single-crystal underlayer 2 of (LaAlO3)0.3-(SrAl0.5Ta0.5O3)0.7, which is LSAT, formed on the (210) plane surface of the supporting substrate. In another aspect of the present invention, the LSAT underlayer 2A is formed in an amorphous state. Other aspects of the invention are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a composite polymer/nanoporous film system and methods of fabrication of tunable nanoporous coatings on flexible polymer substrates. The porosity of the nanoporous film can be tuned during fabrication to a desired value by adjusting the deposition conditions. Experiments show that SiO2 coatings with tunable porosity fabricated by oblique-angle electron beam deposition can be deposited on polymer substrates. These conformable coatings have many applications, including in the field of optics where the ability to fabricate tunable refractive index coatings on a variety of materials and shapes is of great importance.

Abstract: A method of forming an airfoil includes the steps of depositing material to form an airfoil in a first layer, and then depositing material in a second layer on the first layer. The first and second layers have distinct densities. An airfoil is also disclosed. The method provides powerful design advantages.

Abstract: Methods and devices for preparing microscale polymer relief structures from a thin polymer layer on an absorbing substrate are described. The described methods are ultrafast (about 8 nanoseconds) and allow formation of patterned microstructures having complex morphologies and narrow line widths that are an order of magnitude smaller than the masks used in the methods.

Abstract: A process of forming and the resulting nano-pitted metal substrate that serves both as patterns to grow nanostructured materials and as current collectors for the resulting nanostructured material is disclosed herein. The nano-pitted substrate can be fabricated from any suitable conductive material that allows nanostructured electrodes to be grown directly on the substrate.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a flexible electronic device includes forming a flexible substrate on a roll-type mother substrate, separating the flexible substrate from the roll-type mother substrate, and forming an electronic device on a separation surface of the flexible substrate, which has contacted the roll-type mother substrate, thus solving the problems of low performance and low yield of flexible electronic devices due to a low processing temperature, high surface roughness, high thermal expansion coefficient, and poor handling characteristics.

Abstract: Method and equipment to produce nanopowders of materials based on pure metals, their alloys and chemical compounds of these metals with elements taken from the row of B, C, O and Si, encapsulated into a salt shell selected from the group of NaCl, NaF, LiCl, and LiF or their mixtures, includes independent evaporation by means of electron beam and/or laser radiation sources of the material and alkali metal(s) halogenide and simultaneous deposition of a mixture of their vapor phases on a substrate in a closed pumped-down volume. To achieve the required ratio of vapor flows, a screen with variable cross-section diaphragms is placed between the substrate movable in parallel to the evaporators, and the evaporators, thus allowing an independent regulation of the intensity of the vapor flow coming to the substrate from each of the evaporators.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of depositing a composition on a receiving substrate to form a printed object, the method comprising the steps of providing: (1) a receiving substrate; (2) a source of near-infra-red laser radiation which is a pulsed laser source or an array of pulsed lasers; (3) a support transparent to near-infra-red laser radiation, the support being positioned between the receiving substrate and the laser source; and a composition which is in contact with the transparent support and which is positioned between the transparent support and the receiving substrate, wherein the composition comprises: (a) a functional material in particulate form capable of absorbing near-infra-red laser radiation, (b) an oligomer and/or polymer, (c) water, and (d) optionally additives, the method comprising directing near-infra-red laser radiation through the transparent support and into the composition and thereby causing the composition to be transferred from the transparent support across a gap to

Abstract: An anode protector of a lithium-ion battery and a method for fabricating the same are provided. A passivation protector (110) is formed on a surface of an anode (102) in advance by film deposition, such as atomic layer deposition (ALD). The passivation protector (110) is composed of a metal oxide having three dimensional structures, such as columnar structures. Accordingly, the present invention is provided with effective protection of the anode electrode structure and maintenance of battery cycle life under high-temperature operation.

Abstract: An image can be formed onto a device such as a cell phone or a tablet by laser engraving the image onto a housing of the device. A coloring agent can then be applied to the engraved image to modify the color of the image. The coloring agent can darken the engraved image. The coloring agent can include multiple colors of ink (e.g., UV curing ink) that can be applied to form a multi-color image. The coloring agent can be applied without requiring the use of a masking layer, for example, by aligning the laser engraved image with a coloring agent applicator so that the coloring agent is applied to substantially only the engraved image on the device.

Abstract: Techniques for an optical filter having robust crystallized nano-porous layers are disclosed herein. According to at least one embodiment, the optical filter includes a light-transmitting substrate and an optical coating. The optical coating is deposited on the light-transmitting substrate. The optical coating includes at least one crystallized nano-feature layer. The at least one crystallized nano-feature layer is deposited using high temperature oblique angle deposition and has a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the light-transmitting substrate.

Abstract: Some aspects of the invention provide an oxide substrate having a flat surface at the atomic layer level, and suited to forming a thin film of a perovskite manganese oxide. One aspect of the invention provides a single-crystal oxide substrate 10 having a single-crystal supporting substrate 1 of (210)-oriented SrTiO3 and a single-crystal underlayer 2 of (LaAlO3)0.3—(SrAl0.5Ta0.5O3)0.7, which is LSAT, formed on the (210) plane surface of the supporting substrate. In another aspect of the present invention, the LSAT underlayer 2A is formed in an amorphous state. Other aspects of the invention are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotating blade (5), in particular for a compressor or turbine stage of a gas turbine, having a radially outer rib arrangement with at least one rib (2), onto which a coating (3) is disposed, whereby, in a meridian section (FIGS. 2, 3, 4), the coating (3) has an outer contour (3.1), which extends axially outwardly in the radial direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for applying solid layers (14) to an object (12) to be coated by means of at least one radiation source (2), in particular a laser radiation source, which comprises at least the step of removal of a sample (4) in the solid state in at least partially different sections (6) by means of at least one beam (8) emitted by the radiation source (2) to at least partly convert the sample (4) into a gaseous state (10) which deposits at least partially on the object (12) to be coated in order to form a solid layer (14), where at the same time the alignment of a trace of the emitted beam (8) is altered during the step of removal of the sample and the sample (4) is moved.

Abstract: A liquid composition and a process for coating the composition onto a surface of a substrate in a substantially oxygen-free atmosphere, under vacuum conditions. The composition comprises one or more components, all of which components do not go into a gas or vapor phase under the vacuum conditions. The composition has an ethylenically unsaturated component composed of an ethylenically unsaturated methacrylate monomer, or a combination of an ethylenically unsaturated methacrylate monomer and an ethylenically unsaturated methacrylate oligomer. The ethylenically unsaturated component is polymerizable or crosslinkable by the application of sufficient electron beam radiation. The composition is substantially absent of ethylenically unsaturated acrylate components, substantially absent of polymerization initiators, and substantially absent of solvents. The composition optionally further comprises one or more polymers without an acrylate functional group and without a methacrylate functional group.

Abstract: A method for selectively depositing a thin film structure on a substrate is provided. The method includes providing a process gas to a surface of the substrate and directing concentrated electromagnetic energy from a source of energy to at least a portion of the surface. The process gas is decomposed onto the substrate to form a selectively deposited thin film structure.

Abstract: A housing of an electronic device is provided, which includes a plastic substrate defining a through hole having an inner wall, and an antenna formed on a surface of the plastic substrate. A conductive element is formed on the inner wall of the substrate through hole to electronically connect to the antenna. The conductive element defines a hole. The conductive element hole is filled with solidified poly-putty base.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible, biocompatible transparent sheet (8) which has high biocompatibility and a high ability to adsorb a biologically relevant substance, which can be used as a novel biomaterial, and which can be used to observe the propagation, differentiation, and/or the like of living cells in real time. The biocompatible transparent sheet (8) is produced in such a manner that a biocompatible ceramic film (2) is formed on a substrate (1) soluble in a solvent (11) incapable of dissolving biocompatible ceramics by using exemplary a laser ablation process, the substrate (1) depositing the film (2) is dipped in the solvent (11) and dissolved off, and the isolated film (2) is then dried. The biocompatible transparent sheet (8) is utilizable of producing a flexible cultured cell sheet which can be directly transplanted to an affected area. The cell sheet can be prepared in such a manner that cells are seeded on the biocompatible transparent sheet (8) and then propagated.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to an improved process for making glass articles having optical coating and easy-to clean coating thereon, an apparatus for the process and a product made using the process. In particular, the disclosure is directed to a process in which the application of the optical coating and the easy-to-clean coating can be sequentially applied using a single apparatus. Using the combination of the coating apparatus and the substrate carrier described herein results in a glass article having both optical and easy-to-clean coating that have improved scratch resistance durability and optical performance, and in addition the resulting articles are “shadow free.

Abstract: A method for forming a coating on an ionic liquid includes placing an ionic liquid on a surface of a substrate, thereby forming an ionic liquid coated substrate. The ionic liquid coated substrate is introduced into a physical deposition chamber having a physical deposition target. One or more materials are directed from the physical deposition target onto the ionic liquid of the ionic liquid coated substrate by physical vapor deposition to form a coating on the ionic liquid of the ionic liquid coated substrate.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a zinc oxide anti-reflection layer having a syringe-like structure and method for fabricating the same. The zinc oxide anti-reflection layer includes: a zinc oxide lower portion, wherein the zinc oxide lower portion has a nanorod array structure; and a zinc oxide upper portion connected to the zinc oxide lower portion, wherein the zinc oxide anti-reflection layer has a syringe-like structure.

Abstract: A spacer wafer for a wafer-level camera and a method of manufacturing the spacer wafer include positioning a substrate in an additive manufacturing device and forming the spacer wafer over the substrate. The spacer wafer is formed by an additive manufacturing process.

Abstract: A coated substrate including a substrate having a surface, a bond coat proximate to the substrate surface, a yttrium stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thermal barrier layer opposite the substrate surface, and at least one interlayer disposed between the bond coat and the thermal barrier layer, wherein the interlayer contains an alloy having a nanocrystalline grain structure. A method for coating a substrate to be exposed to high in service temperatures and/or temperature cycles including depositing a bond coating on substrate surface, depositing at least one nanocrystalline interlayer on the bond coat opposite the substrate surface, and depositing a yttrium stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thermal barrier coating on the nanocrystalline interlayer opposite the bond coat, wherein the service life of the YSZ thermal barrier coating is extended relative to a substrate coated with the bond coating and the thermal barrier without the interlayer disposed therebetween.

Abstract: An evaporation donor substrate which enables only a desired evaporation material to be evaporated at the time of deposition by an evaporation method, and capable of reduction in manufacturing cost by increase in use efficiency of the evaporation material and deposition with high uniformity. An evaporation donor substrate capable of controlling laser light so that a desired position of an evaporation donor substrate is irradiated with the laser light in accordance with the wavelength of the emitted laser light at the time of evaporation. Specifically, an evaporation donor substrate in which a region which reflects laser light and a region which absorbs laser light at the time of irradiation with laser light having a wavelength of greater than or equal to 400 nm and less than or equal to 600 nm at the time of evaporation are formed.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus of display element which forms highly reliable drive circuits or thin-film transistors on a flexible substrate, a manufacturing method, and a highly reliable display element are provided. A display element (50) includes a flexible substrate (FB), a first partition wall and second partition wall (BA) formed by pressing the flexible substrate, a lyophobic surface (PJ) formed on surfaces of the first partition wall and the second partition wall, and electrodes (S, P) formed by applying droplets onto a groove portion formed between the first partition wall and second partition wall. It is also possible for a lyophilic surface to be formed on the surface of the groove portion (GR) between the first partition wall and second partition wall (BA).

Abstract: A method of manufacture is provided. The manufacturing method includes using an abrasive liquid jet to form one or more grooves in an outer surface of a substrate. Each groove has a base and an opening and extends at least partially along the outer surface of the substrate, where the substrate has an inner surface that defines at least one hollow, interior space. The manufacturing method further includes using a laser cladding process to apply a laser clad material over the opening of the respective groove(s), to at least partially define one or more channels for cooling the component, and disposing a coating over at least a portion of the outer surface of the substrate and over the laser clad material. Other manufacturing methods and a component are also provided.

Abstract: A flow field plate or bipolar plate for a fuel cell that includes a combination of non-stoichiometric and a conductive material that makes the bipolar plate conductive, hydrophilic and stable in the fuel cell environment. The non-stoichiometric and the conductive material can be deposited on the plate as separate layers or can be combined as a single layer. Either the non-stoichiometric layer or the conductive layer can be deposited first. In one embodiment, the conductive material is gold.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the application of high temperature coating that provide enhanced impact resistance and erosion damage for the coatings. For high temperature coating systems that provide environmental protection to silicon based ceramics, the process provides the deposition of a silicon-based bond coat on the substrate using the directed vapor deposition with plasma activation and at least one supersonic gas jet nozzle. The process provides the deposition of an EBC layer using the directed vapor deposition with the gas jet nozzle. In one embodiment, the thermal barrier layer may also contain one or more dense embedded layers which further promote impact resistance. Within the process, the particular layers, silicon bond coat, EBC layer and/or TBC layer may be deposited together or specific novel layers applied in combination with other layers deposited using prior known deposition techniques.

Abstract: A method for forming a metal film with twins is disclosed. The method includes: (a) forming a metal film over a substrate, the metal film being made of a material having one of a face-centered cubic crystal structure and a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure; and (b) ion bombarding the metal film at a film temperature lower than ?20° C. in a vacuum chamber and with an ion-bombarding energy sufficient to cause plastic deformation of the metal film to generate deformation twins in the metal film.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate of an analytical sensor and the substrate thus prepared are disclosed.

Abstract: A method to grow a boule of silicon carbide is described. The method may include flowing a silicon-containing precursor and a carbon-containing precursor proximate to a heated filament array and forming the silicon carbide boule on a substrate from reactions of the heated silicon-containing and carbon-containing precursors. Also, an apparatus for growing a silicon carbide boule is described. The apparatus may include a deposition chamber to deposit silicon carbide on a substrate, and a precursor transport system for introducing silicon-containing and carbon-containing precursors into the deposition chamber. The apparatus may also include at least one filament or filament segment capable of being heated to a temperature that can activate the precursors, and a substrate pedestal to hold a deposition substrate upon which the silicon carbide boule is grown. The pedestal may be operable to change the distance between the substrate and the filament as the silicon carbide boule is grown.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making a graphene sheet-carbon nanotube film composite structure. The method includes steps of: providing a carbon nanotube film structure and a dispersed solution, and the dispersed solution comprises a solvent and an amount of functionalized graphene sheets dispersed in the solvent; applying the dispersed solution on a surface of the carbon nanotube film structure; and removing the solvent and thereby locating the functionalized graphene sheets on the carbon nanotube film structure. The present invention also relates to a method for making a transmission electron microscope grid.

Abstract: A technique for bonding two dissimilar materials includes positioning a second material over a first material at an oblique angle and applying a tamping layer over the second martial. A laser beam is directed at the second material that generates a plasma at the location of impact on the second material. The plasma generates pressure that accelerates a portion of the second material to a very high velocity and towards the first material. The second material impacts the first material causing bonding of the two materials.

Abstract: A rotatable engine component, coating and method of coating the rotatable component includes a substrate, a transitional zone applied to the substrate, and an abradable zone applied to the transitional zone. During operation of an engine in a turbine, the abradable zone is consumed upon contact with a static portion of the engine preventing damage to the rotatable component.

Abstract: Surface-structured, cross-linked silicone-based material and method for making the same. Embodiments of silicone-based materials described herein are useful, for example, in applications of light capture, anti-reflection, light redirection, light diffusion, hydrophobic surfaces, hydrophilic surfaces, light guiding, light collimation, light concentration, Fresnel lens, retro-reflection, drag reduction, air bleed adhesives, release liner, abrasion resistance, and anti-fouling.

Abstract: A thermal and electrical conducting apparatus includes a few-layer graphene film having a thickness D where D?1.5 nm and a plurality of carbon nanotubes crystallographically aligned with the few-layer graphene film.

Abstract: A method of growing a plurality of free-standing structures comprises providing a plurality of free-standing structures, each free-standing structure having a first end coupled to a substrate, and a terminal end; providing at least one laser beam, the laser beam having a beam waste at a point proximate to the terminal end of the free-standing structure; and moving one of the plurality of freestanding structures or the beam waste to provide a growth zone proximate to the terminal end of each of the free-standing structures such that the free-standing structures grow into the growth zones by addition of decomposing precursor components. The growth rates of each of the free-standing structures are substantially the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver complex obtained by reacting at least one silver compound represented by the formula 2 below with at least one ammonium carbamate compound or ammonium carbonate compound represented by the formula 3, 4 or 5 below:

Abstract: A metal component for one or more of a fitting, a piece of furniture, and a household appliance. The metal component, at least sectionally, has a coating which comprises at least one perfluoroalkoxy copolymer. A method for producing a metal component for one or more of a fitting, a piece of furniture, and a household appliance, wherein the method comprises the following steps: forming the metal component; pretreating the metal component; applying a coating, which coating comprises at least a perfluoroalkoxy copolymer; curing the applied coating; and cooling the coated metal component.